Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-03-10
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dered.
Up in Washington Territory it is
said that the edelweiss, the famous
flower Of the Alps, is found on Mount
Rainier.
Franz Liszt, it is now definitely aseer-
tanned, was Il Freemason. He was re-
ceived into the order at Frankfort-on-
the-Main in lS4l.
A locomotive used as n switch-engine
at Bellows Falls. VT, Is said to be the
Oldest in this country, having first been
used July 20. 1S49.
1t is estimated that over $500, 900
has been spent in unsuccessful attempts
to establish newspapers In Portland,
Oregon, during the past twenty years.
The Dominion government has de-
clined to compensate the Saskatoon
settlers for protecting the government
telegraph line during the rebellion be-
fore the arrival of the troops.
In Montana during the winter cow
boys make a living by killing mount
ain lions, for which II bounty of s. per
head is paid. The animals are fero-
cious, and some are very large.
Prof. Samson, a French biologist,
concludes HAT the Use of animals is
more economical than that of steam
engines in eases where the power re-
CURED does not exceed that of twenty
horses.
People living on Johnson's Island.
| Gn,l,,l,,r r.. ,Jo,~, - tA., Al. ,.ttla
of skeletons and the tramp of soldiers
these winter nights, and the matter
has gone SO far that n family has left
for the main land.
Harper's Weekly tells of a well-known
novelist from New York who withdrew
teller had 4 way of throwing down his
pass book when he made a deposit that
was "unspeakably irritating"
There is money in wood pulp, judy
ing from the demand. One mill in
Brunswick, Me-, has hard work to keep
ahead of its orders, ruAning night and
day, and pulp made there has gone to
Boston and returned in the shape of
newspapers within forty-eight hours.
Mrs. John C. Miller of Keytesville,
Mo-, has a ship biscuit which it is said
was brought from England in 1880.
People who have seen it. however, de-
clare that the pe~trifaction bears a sus-
picious resemblance to a railroad res
taurant sandwich of the present day.
They tell a story in a Shasta, Cal,
town about a Justice of the peace who
fined a citizen SIS for some ~offense. Il
won't pay it, said the man. Twill
you pay S10?' demanded the Justice.
No" by Cad, then, gimme S."
pleaded the Justice, but the delinquent
swore he wouldn't pay a cent. and he
didn't, and that was the end of it.
/ There has been an enormous increase
of the German forces on the French
frontier, the force having been raised
from 10000 to 10000. This has been
met by a corresponding increase in the
French frontier forces, and the two
armies are now separated only by a
neutral zone of from twenty to 100
miles. They are almost face to face.
The division of Great Britain into
three realms was prophesied as long
ago as the twelfth century. The proph.
ecy is attributed to ..Benedictus Alb.
bas;' and the following translation is
given in the English papers:
when thou sccst in Here & hart set up.
Then shall the English &c divided into three
The one shall go entirely into lrs'and;
The second in ApGlia snail proudly stay;
The third shall suffer all manner of misery ii
their own hand
Nothing can reach on! further than 6
cough at church. II may come from
the remotest corner i'll the rear, but its
echo tickles the thrOats Of those in
front, and then creeps down the aisle
and touches the vergers, and float;
from the choir to the minister, anC
never releases its hold until it has
wrung sympathetic explosion from
every victim. Perhaps you've notieedit
There is a possibility in England o
the imposition of Il popular tax, athine
almost unknown. The proposition il
TO impose a tax OF f5 Il year on al
foreigners working in England, which
would increase the revenue half q mil
lion sterling. The tax would be aimee
principally at the Germans. who are
becoming popular as servants, ant
have quite supplanted the English il
large hotels.
The Maine agricultural college ha;
23S graduates and 103 students thi.
year. The government endowment
fund amounts to $131 800, ex-Gov
Coburn having increased the fund by
800, 000. The state appropriation:
amount to $212,618, and this year,
Legislature will be asked to appropriate
S27,350. Last years financial state
ment shows a heavy loss, resulting
from diseased stock.
Queen Christina was recently in
formed by the Alcalde of Madrid of the
baptism of the 1,O00th baby called AL
fonso since the death of the late King
Touched by this mark of sympathy
from the citizens of Madrid, the Queer
made the baby several handsome pres
ents, including a book with this in
scription: 'sTo the 1,000th Alfonso
from a woman whom two Alfonso.
have made happy"
Among those who attended q mind
reading exhibition in Boston the othe
evening was a mar who evidentl,
thought mind-reading was the work o
the devil. So he had come prepared
to Illustrate the arch-fiend, and, unit
he was put out of the hall, flourished
crucitix and chanted the GLORIA.
When he finally went out the light o
victory was in his eyes, and he shoute.
"M hoe sigao uinces.n
One of the abominable inconsisten
cies of the dictionaries, says the edito
of the Louisville Courfer-Jou7nai, is tn
spelling of nog in egg-nog with on
"g." While they Were about it, VIII,
didn't they drop one of the "g's" from
egg and make the word eg-nog? Mos
people would look upon ..eg-nog,
J however, as rather weak. Those VIII
use it at all in the holidays want fou
gs in it. Egg-Rogg is the word.
The remains of aeypress-wood coffin
|. studded with brass nails, was foun'
l under the first landing of the stsirwa,
behind the southwest plaster of 81
/ Michael's church, Charleston, S. C.
!, Thursday, by the workmen digging a
1 the foundation. Only one bone wa
l found. 1t was Of a reddish color, an
. was probably a thigh-bone. On wha
l was the top Of the coffin were the I'M
> tials u. o. b." and the figures ..167S'
; in brass nails. =